Directed by Orson Welles, Citizen Kane stars Welles as a powerful newspaper publisher whose life is examined after his death through a journalists investigation. Inspired by the life of William Randolph Hearst, the film follows a series of accounts that attempt to reconstruct his past and the meaning of his final word. Från IMDB: Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: Rosebud.